The Breach is based on a true story, that of the worst case of espionage ever experienced by the US. Robert Hanssen sold secrets to the soviets for years from the safety of his high level job in the FBI. Overall it wasn’t a bad movie, historically it was interesting, though of course I’m sure Hollywood had its way with the truth, and it was generally pretty believable. Of course I had a massive chuckle at the scene where Robert Hanssen went through the FBI datacentre sprouting all sorts of tech related terms and acronyms in sentences that made as much sense as a teletubby episode.
A common weakness in this sort of movie, and one that for me left me feeling pretty frustrated, is of course the weakness of the main leads girlfriend. Far from being supportive they always seem to find it difficult to accept that as an FBI (or secret) agent there are things about his day job that he just cant talk about. This whole aspect of the movie just went too far, with the girlfriend going to the point of deception to try and find out what her boyfriend was up to. Maybe its just because this seems to ruin nearly every movie involving a dedicated, patriotic, all round American good guy secret agent, but it just never feels like the girlfriends reaction is reasonable, like if you were in that position that YOU would feel that way too….
But maybe that is just me….any girlfriends of secret agent out there care to comment?
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